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“Normal” is not the word Dr. Naomi Bardach would use to describe the upcoming school year in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Students and teachers will still have to wear masks and take weekly COVID-19 tests, whether they’re vaccinated or not. LAUSD is still paying for a stepped-up cleaning regimen on its campuses.
“But I think compared to last year,” said Bardach a practicing pediatrician and leader of the state’s Safe Schools for All team life on campus this year “is going to feel a lot more familiar.”
Brace yourselves, students and parents. Your L.A. Unified School District campus may be reopening in April for the first time in potentially 13 months, but the place won t be quite the same.
You may be prepared for the now-familiar COVID-19 countermeasures face mask requirements, social-distancing warning signs, hand sanitizer stations.
But are you ready for a kindergarten classroom without shared toys, books, counting buttons, a reading chair, or even a circle-time rug? Parent Chaka Forman wasn t. 4:33
Support for LAist comes from This make me sad, Forman said as he toured the Venice classroom where his son once attended kindergarten. This was a vibrant room full of life, color, activity.